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Victoria Song and Nilay Patel, the Verge: Fresh off the WWDC keynote presentation, The Verge has been invited to an “on-the-record technical deep dive into the bold new architecture enabling Apple Intelligence capabilities.” Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi and his team will be there, and so will we. No video, but it looks […]⌥ Permalink

Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services?

Enter auth.md. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.

With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application.

Read the auth.md docs.

Eric Szeto, Jordan Pearson, and Christian Paas-Lang, CBC News: You might think, based on the volume of her Facebook posts, that Nieta Aqila is an Albertan who supports separation. “I signed the Alberta independence petition” because “Canada is not a great country anymore,” an account in her name wrote in a popular Facebook group called […]⌥ Permalink

Finished reading: Disco Space Opera series, book 3. Rumor Has It by Cat Rambo. Published 2024. Started April 24, 2026; completed June 8, 2026. Posted: June 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM UTC. Tagged: LGBT, science fiction, space opera.

Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago: Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a Siri overha...

Today’s live stream was a little over an hour long — the shortest presentation since 2005 — but, if this big list of refinements captured by Jonathan Reed, of MacStories, is representative of what will be shipping in September, I am not disappointed. Some choice bullet points, in no particular order: Uniform toolbars [iOS] Lock […]⌥ Permalink

I am taking a few days off. No posts here, no newsletter, no notes from the road. Things will be quiet on om.co until I am back. The last few months have been heavy on output. Essays, the newsletter with Fred, the long pieces on OpenAI and AI infrastructure, the photo work, the pen notes. …

Sometimes you write a post and when you're editing it you realize you no longer support what you wrote. This is one of those times.

Zack Whittaker, This Week in Security: According to the data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general’s office late on Friday, Meta notified at least 20,225 people that their accounts had been compromised, including 30 people in Maine. […] According to Maine’s listing, the hacks began around April 17 and lasted until this week, when […]⌥ Permalink

Galicia, May 2026.

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, Wired: One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code. Once again, the pugilistic but ultimately cowardly Meta communications team had […]⌥ Permalink

I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics

Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.

I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported.

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Jeong Seon (1676-1759), Clearing after rain on Mount Inwang. Ink on paper, Joseon dynasty, 1751. 

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler by Nathan Kernan is a very good biography, but it (inadvertently I think) raises an interesting question. Late in life Schuyler (a) achieved stability of mind and daily life and (b) became a regular churchgoer. The unasked question is whether those two developments were related, and if so, how? 📚

So strange that the Sagrada Familia is nearing completion — unfinishedness seems so integral to its identity. Much larger version of the photo here. 

In which I criticize Churchill and admire Dr George Augustus Auden.

Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop good idiomatically native apps. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and SwiftUI is now seven years old.